Colonialism and imperialism

On the Semicivilized by Julia Elyachar is a sweeping analysis of the coloniality that shaped-and blocked-sovereign futures for those dubbed barbarian and semicivilized in the former Ottoman Empire.

Mexico's movement toward independence from Spain was a key episode in the dissolution of the great Spanish Empire, and its accompanying armed conflict arguably the first great war of decolonization in the nineteenth century.

Covering a period of 2000 years, this book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the devil's role in the Western tradition and draws from history, religion, art, literature, media studies, and anthropology to provide a multifaceted view of the devil over time.

This book examines the history of human rights in US security imaginaries and provides a theoretical framework to explore the common-sense assumptions around US foreign relations and the universality of the human.

Dynamics of Deep Time and Deep Place comprises one volume in an unprecedented three-volume set, collectively subtitled Decolonial Reconstellations.

This book explores the complexities and nuances of reparations for victims and survivors of settler colonial violence.

For centuries, Russian imperialism has shaped the fate of its neighbours, from the tsarist conquests to Soviet domination and today's relentless aggression.

From the 1930s to the 1950s, jazz pianist Maurice Rocco was a mainstay in Hollywood and American nightlife scenes.

Brilliantly reconstructed from contemporary narratives, The Last Outlaws is both a gripping work of historical true crime and a richly revealing examination of our nation at its birth.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Presss Open Access publishing program.

In 1898, on the eve of the Spanish-American War, the US Army seemed minuscule and ill-equipped for global conflict.

This book showcases Global South theorizations and understandings of gender.

Critical Issues in Caribbean Museums examines the challenges faced within the field of Caribbean Museology.

Explores historical and contemporary imperatives to (re)translate African literature which argues that translation is not a metaphor.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

How to Support the Neuropsychological Health of the Vietnamese Diaspora is the first book in a new series entitled A Clinical Guide to the Neuropsychological Health of Immigrant Populations, which guides clinicians in the art and science of providing culturally competent services to specific communities.

This book, contextualized by the violence of globalization, investigates the fungible, fugitive, and untenable experiences of Black being and time through a decolonial poethics of global*Blackness.

This book offers a long-overdue analysis of the ubiquity of eco-apocalypticism in current discourses on the climate crisis.

The Ottoman Empire's rule in the Balkans began in the late 14th century and continued until the late 19th century, and its impact on the region's history, culture, and society was significant.

Die Landesgeschichte Nordwestdeutschlands hat vielfältige koloniale Bezüge aufzuweisen, die in diesem Band vorgestellt und diskutiert werden.

From a major scholar, a postcolonial perspective on key current and historical issues in Anglicanism, foregrounding the voices of theologians and church leaders from the Global South.

Post-development advocates and decolonial thinkers are calling for radical alternatives to development, but how do these ideals sit with the day-to-day reality of marginalised communities struggling with poverty, precarity, and the deprivation of human rights?

Problem Society is an essential introduction to the many facets of divided societies.

This volume contains the English translation of the seventeenth-century literary and archival materials about a Basque person who died under the name Antonio de Erauso (b.

Roure draws a novel connection between Tommaso Campanella's utopian ideas for Imperial Spain and Catholicism and Portuguese navigator Pedro Fernandez de Quiros' vision of an idyllic society and a mythical city of New Jerusalem in the antipodes.

This volume examines the politics of fieldwork and the challenges of researching migrants constructed as outsiders both nationally and transnationally.

Die Studie von Moritz Herrmann befasst sich mit dem "Quilombo von Palmares" – einer Gemeinschaft aufständischer Sklaven im kolonialen Brasilien – und deren kontinuierlicher Präsenz in Geschichte und Gedächtnis.

This book looks at the historical and political dynamics of the Sino-Indian border dispute in India's Himalayan Frontiers.

Many Europeans saw Africa's colonization as an exhibition of European racial ascendancy.

Commercial Relations between India and England (1924) is a comprehensive study of the beginnings of the English relations with India and the East.

Reformatting Agrarian Life presents a stealth urban history from the countryside that foregrounds the mutual entanglements of agrarian and urban expertise.

The acquisition of table manners and rhetorical skills, the interaction between medicine and eating, and the presence of food in literature and religion shaped Peninsular societies and connected them to a Western European background during the Middle Ages.